I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
A cultural critique of zoos that seeks to problematize their role as a sanctuary for animals.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
Essays from the New Mexico Environmental Symposium held in Albuquerque in April 1996 discuss the ways in which concepts of human nature shape our understandings of environmental issues and direct our environmental politics.
Based on his serialized “Ripples in Clio’s Pond” segments in the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, J. Donald Hughes’s book condenses the environmental history of the world into roughly 250 pages without leaving gaping holes.
This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region’s meaning on the larger stage of national life.
Until the project was finally abandoned in 1989, the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant was the focus of Swiss disputes on nuclear energy for almost twenty years. In this case study, Patrick Kupper pursues the question of how an electro-technical infrastructure project could become the focal point of discourse about common basic values of Swiss society.
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.